Before joining Mission Local, he wrote for the East Bay Express, the SF Bay Guardian, and the San Francisco Business Times. More by Julian Mark Join the Conversation 7 Comments. DIEF DEXTER says: January 9, 2020, 8:27 pm at 8:27 pm it’s funny how they arrested so many people but yet and still the drug dealers that create the …El Gallo Giro, 986-998 Treat Avenue in San Francisco, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. On the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue in the …The many problems in SF, recognized, even made fun of, around the country, is the result of years and years of leftist policies. ... But Mission Local wants more of them. The ACLU, long an admirable organization which supported civil liberties, is now little more than a leftist advocacy group. “Progressive” is just another word for Marxist ...Feb. 2021 Photo by Lydia Chávez 1990 Folsom. More than 100 San Francisco mixed-income residential buildings are struggling to fill affordable units, according to a new report from the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst. In total, 15 percent of the city’s below-market-rate apartments, 305 out of 1,961, were vacant as of ...A new report ranks San Francisco’s park system as one of the best in the country — as long as you are not a low-income resident.. The city-based nonprofit Trust for Public Land launched its 10th annual ParkScore index report, which judges park systems in major U.S. metropolitan areas by factors such as park spending per resident, acreage, …Jan 26, 2024 · Ryan Khojasteh, a 30-year-old Alameda County prosecutor who was among 15 fired from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office during the 2022 administration change, will announce his candidacy today for San Francisco’s top prosecutor seat. “People are frustrated. They feel unsafe,” said Khojasteh, a one-time employee of ousted ... La Vaca Birria owner in SF's Mission defends burrito raising price to $22 02:52. A restaurant owner in San Francisco's Mission District recently responded to …Here are the other top donors to the school board recall: David Sacks: Tech investor, former COO of PayPal, founder of Yammer, and financier of 2007 satirical anti-lobbying film Thank You For Smoking. He has given $74,500 to the school board recall. He also gave $75,000 to the Boudin recall.‘San Francisco can’t do this alone’: SF housing group says securing dollars is biggest obstacle March 1, 2024, 12:04 pm March 1, 2024, 12:12 pm Meet the District 1 candidates: How will your life experience help you as supervisor?Local funds: $1,191,728,732. Data shows funding for 100 percent affordable units from 2018 to 2023. Source: Affordable Housing Leadership Council. Chart by Kelly Waldron. “It’s darn expensive to build affordable housing in San Francisco,” said Adams. While finding more outside funding is a challenge, so is securing local money.Feb. 2021 Photo by Lydia Chávez 1990 Folsom. More than 100 San Francisco mixed-income residential buildings are struggling to fill affordable units, according to a new report from the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Legislative Analyst. In total, 15 percent of the city’s below-market-rate apartments, 305 out of 1,961, were vacant as of ...Mission Local’s Annika Hom, at Haney’s watch party in SoMa, reports that the candidate strode in at 9 to a massive cheer from both his stalwart supporters and his wingman, Supervisor Shamann Walton: “WHOOOOO!” ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San …An embarrassment of riches, is what our neighborhood is. Penny Roma ( website) 3000 20th St. San Francisco CA, 94110. 415-826-7004. Penny Roma opened on 20th Street in October of 2021 by the Flour+Water Group, so right off the bat, you know it’s going to be good. It’s in the gorgeous.SF officials plan to ditch paper building permits. by Will Jarrett May 12, 2023, 10:23 am. Michael Christensen, principal planner for the Permit Center, speaks to the Planning Commission and the Building Inspection Commission. Updated May 12, 3:30 p.m. The city agencies involved in approving housing may soon enter the digital age, ditching ...Milo Trauss admitted the project at 2588 Mission St. was a “non-starter for some people.” It’s a 10-story, overwhelmingly market-rate building proposed by Hawk Lou, the owner of the site on Mission and 22nd streets where Lou’s previous building burned in 2015.Scores of tenants and businesses were displaced (including Mission Local), and …Mar 6, 2022 · 363 Noe St. Photo courtesy of Mission Housing. Next week, the affordable housing nonprofit Mission Housing will begin a complete remodel of 69 of San Francisco’s remaining public-housing sites. This means improved conditions and first-ever tenant services. It also broadens Mission Housing’s reach in the western part of the city. Overview: Delay triggers chaos in court. On Friday a San Francisco Superior Court judge pushed back the preliminary hearing of former SFPD Officer Chris Samayoa, who shot dead Keita “Icky” O’Neil in 2017. The hearing was delayed until July, a decision that caused outrage among O’Neil’s supporters, who were thrown out of court for the ...Sideshows hit San Francisco's Mission, Castro and Pacific Heights all in one night. By Stephen Council March 20, 2024. A sideshow at the intersection of Castro …U.S. Mission to Vietnam Announces Recruitment for 2024… Tenth U.S.-Vietnam Asia-Pacific Dialogue. Ambassador Marc Knapper Returns Personal Diary of… I Need… A …On Monday night at around 11:30 p.m., multiple sex workers were on different street corners, from 20th near Capp Street down to Shotwell Street, where three sex workers stood on different corners across from Shotwell’s Bar. Much like residents’ accounts, a mini traffic jam ensued as women walked into the street, and cars stopped to …Follow the opioid data, NY doc tells SF. by Lydia Chávez September 20, 2023, 9:15 am September 20, 2023, 9:15 am. Posted in Newsletter ... Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness.Early this summer, the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was lagging behind the anti-recall camp in its funding, according to Ethics Commission data. On June 18, that changed dramatically. Some $300,000 from a political action committee called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco dropped in a single day.The latest articles and videos from Mission Local. Since 2008, Mission Local has been all up in the Mission District reporting on everything from tacos to tech, crime to culture, murals to MUNI, recording the lives and changes in the …8. Play mini-golf at Urban Putt. Urban Putt is a perfect rainy day venue in the Mission District of San Francisco. This 14-hole indoor mini-golf course, nestled in a historic Victorian building, will easily brighten your day with LED motion sensors, virtual simulations, booming sound effects.Dec 18, 2023 · Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. Map by Will Tile / Mission Local. San Francisco’s population grew by 8.5 percent between 2010 and 2020, primarily due to an increasing Asian population, according to an analysis of Census Data. Most …Oct 4, 2022 · Explore: Every person killed in SF police shootings since 2000. Illustrations by Molly Oleson. First published October 2022; updated August 2023. On May 19, 2022, San Francisco police officers killed Michael MacFhionghain and Rafael Mendoza in the dirt beneath the I-280 overpass. Officers were called to separate the two brawling homeless men. Dec 19, 2023 · July 8, 2023. Four children ranging in age from 13 to 17 filed a class-action suit today against the city, its police chief, Mission Station’s police captain and a tactical squad lieutenant in a long-promised legal action following the SFPD’s crackdown at this summer’s Dolores Park Hill Bomb. Scores of police broke up the annual ... Mission Local is a local publication that focuses on life in the Mission District.. Previous Non-Profit Status. Originally, Mission Local was a non-profit and the operation was run and supported by the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. As such, their articles were written by Berkeley J-School students, so they were pretty high quality and often in-depth.Apr 18, 2023 · A proposed stipulation lays out the case that she spent six months illegally lobbying city staff, planning commissioners, and a city supervisor on behalf of a restaurant that paid her $12,500. Starting in 2019 and into 2020, while she was a member of the SFMTA Board, Borden sent 32 emails to six Planning Department staffers, sent personalized ... A group of pro-Palestine protesters marching down Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros. Thousands of protesters took over the Central Freeway in San Francisco today in a march calling for an end to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza that began three weeks ago after a surprise attack by Hamas.Mission Local Membership. Mission Local is an award-winning, independent news site located in San Francisco's Mission District. We try to add value; to find stories that others are missing; to dig deep. We also train young reporters to report on a wide range of issues including police reform, City Hall, income disparity, business, housing, and ...More SF supes receive threats referencing Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan’s posts by Joe Rivano Barros January 31, 2024, 7:03 pm February 1, 2024, 4:43 pm. ... Consider donating to Mission Local today. We're a nonprofit newsroom that has been covering San Francisco since 2008, digging deep to bring you the political analysis, …SF is now boycotting most of the United States. by Joe Eskenazi March 14, 2022, 6:05 am. San Francisco in March reached the tipping point of boycotting businesses headquartered in most of the 50 states (March tally pictured in graphic). In the ensuing months, the number of states on the banned list has swelled from 28 to 30.SF officials plan to ditch paper building permits. by Will Jarrett May 12, 2023, 10:23 am. Michael Christensen, principal planner for the Permit Center, speaks to the Planning Commission and the Building Inspection Commission. Updated May 12, 3:30 p.m. The city agencies involved in approving housing may soon enter the digital age, ditching ...The SFPD announced after 10 p.m. Wednesday that it had obtained video footage and released images of “a person of interest” in a fatal shooting that occurred 12 hours earlier on a Muni train traveling between Forest Hill and Castro stations. A 27-year-old victim was killed, and a 70-year-old victim was transported to the hospital, according ...We kept growing and in October 2022, the IRS granted Mission Local SF (EIN: 88-3177547) status as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (retroactive to July 1, …May 17, 2023 · SF anti-eviction group ousts director amid union turmoil. The executive director of the Eviction Defense Collaborative, one of San Francisco’s principal anti-eviction organizations, was ousted by its board of directors today, according to an internal email obtained by Mission Local. The ouster comes as the EDC Union, a group representing some ... Early this summer, the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was lagging behind the anti-recall camp in its funding, according to Ethics Commission data. On June 18, that changed dramatically. Some $300,000 from a political action committee called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco dropped in a single day.The many problems in SF, recognized, even made fun of, around the country, is the result of years and years of leftist policies. ... But Mission Local wants more of them. The ACLU, long an admirable organization which supported civil liberties, is now little more than a leftist advocacy group. “Progressive” is just another word for Marxist ...Milo Trauss admitted the project at 2588 Mission St. was a “non-starter for some people.” It’s a 10-story, overwhelmingly market-rate building proposed by Hawk Lou, the owner of the site on Mission and 22nd streets where Lou’s previous building burned in 2015.Scores of tenants and businesses were displaced (including Mission Local), and …And if compassion is now viewed as killing people, the city seems ready to pivot to cruelty. Gov. Gavin Newsom joined city workers in a homeless encampment street sweep on 19th Street near Mission and Capp streets. Photo by Annika Hom, Aug. 27, 2021. Yes, San Francisco is continuing to invest in treatment solutions, even in the face of a ...Mission. Mission Local, an independent, Latina-led news site based in the Mission District, the neighborhood with San Francisco’s largest Latinx population, aims to produce high-impact journalism covering government, police reform, housing, education, and community health.MissionLocal. @MissionLocal ‧ 756 subscribers ‧ 1K videos. Since 2008, Mission Local, an independent news site based in the Mission District, has been reporting on everything …City Guides. A Guide to San Francisco’s Mission District Neighborhood. By Mitchell Duran December 6, 2021. The Mission District Neighborhood, one of the oldest …Mission Local’s Will Jarrett unearthed troves of data from local and state sources. The numbers are complicated and troubling and belie any easy solutions — via cheap populism or expensive budget supplementals. ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco ...Jan 24, 2024 · BART Plaza. Photo by Lydia Chavez. SF SAFE, San Francisco nonprofit that has been accused of misspending city funds is today facing a new charge: It has purportedly stiffed a Mission District nonprofit of $625,000 for services already provided. The Latino Task Force, which was contracted by the nonprofit SF SAFE to train Spanish-speaking staff ... In the past year, arrests have shot up, and jail populations are climbing. Anytime arrests are up, SF Pretrial’s client base increases. In early 2022, they averaged only around 500 cases at any given time. Right now, they’re down to 22 case managers, said Mauroff, spread thin across a growing list of 900 clients.Kindergarten students from Mission Basilica School watch the ringing of the 1927 school bell during their procession into Mission San Juan Capistrano on Tuesday, …Persons considering a police career have likely scoped out SF and quickly written it off as an option due to anti-police BOS, commission and a variety of community groups. High cost of living and commute issue are also factors. Demographics have totally changed in SF – less lower middle class and middle class (a traditional pool of candidates).by Joe Rivano Barros November 2, 2023, 3:47 pm. Uptown bar, at 17th and Capp streets, is closing after 39 years in the Mission. Nov. 2, 2023. Photo by Junyao Yan. Uptown, the dive bar and legacy business at 17th and Capp streets founded a day after Christmas in 1984, will close in early January, one of its owners said today.In the past year, arrests have shot up, and jail populations are climbing. Anytime arrests are up, SF Pretrial’s client base increases. In early 2022, they averaged only around 500 cases at any given time. Right now, they’re down to 22 case managers, said Mauroff, spread thin across a growing list of 900 clients.Mission Dolores curator wants to memorialize site’s indigenous dead; Former SF worker charged with looting $627K in workers’ comp; Police boost reward for 2016 Mission double murder to $200K; Keep local news alive — donate today!Kindergarten students from Mission Basilica School watch the ringing of the 1927 school bell during their procession into Mission San Juan Capistrano on Tuesday, …More than organized labor, progressive political clubs or the official San Francisco Democratic Party, the local Republican chapter’s picks for ballot measures were the closest match to what Breed and her allies endorsed — and what voters chose. The Republicans’ endorsed measures differed for only one: Proposition A, the $300 million ...Sideshows hit San Francisco's Mission, Castro and Pacific Heights all in one night. By Stephen Council March 20, 2024. A sideshow at the intersection of Castro …Local funds: $1,191,728,732. Data shows funding for 100 percent affordable units from 2018 to 2023. Source: Affordable Housing Leadership Council. Chart by Kelly Waldron. “It’s darn expensive to build affordable housing in San Francisco,” said Adams. While finding more outside funding is a challenge, so is securing local money.About 73,000 people voted for Chesa Boudin as their 1st choice candidate in 2019. Around 76,000 voted to recall him in the June 2022 election — almost the same number. The difference is that a larger …Election 2024: An initial post-mortem of San Francisco results. by Joe Eskenazi March 6, 2024, 12:30 pm. Mayor London Breed on March 5, 2024, after voting and receiving her San Francisco-themed sticker. Photo by Xueer Lu. The conventional wisdom regarding low-turnout local elections is that they favor older, whiter, more conservative …So far only $1,275 has been raised. Earlier: Posted Nov. 14, 11:24 a.m. Three tenants were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries Tuesday morning after a two-alarm fire broke out at 6 a.m. and spread to two buildings on the east side of Valencia Street between 20th and 21st streets. Between eight and 14 tenants were displaced, leaving ...Closing Laguna Honda would be like dropping a bomb on SF. Punitive federal behavior regarding potential closure remains baffling. But longstanding drug use and violence at hospital menaces staff and frail elderly. by Joe Eskenazi May 17, 2022, 3:21 pm. Laguna Honda Hospital, seen here in 1956, was founded some 166 years ago as an …Feb 6, 2023 · “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere. AI founders head west to SF, and find a city awash in connections, ideas and funding by Yujie Zhou October 30, 2023, 6:00 am October 31, 2023, 9:42 am. ... Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. ...Ex-prosecutor to head sheriff oversight in SF by Eleni Balakrishnan December 15, 2023, 2:01 pm December 15, 2023, 4:30 pm. Share this: ... Mission Local has learned, because the board would have to call a special meeting for more than three members to meet under public-meeting laws. ...By Ryan Semmelmayer. |. October 4, 2020. takespace. Each San Francisco neighborhood has its own unique charm and culture, and the Mission District stands out …At Mission Local, Gilare hopes to use her data skills to deliver human stories, as well as add Spanish to her list of four languages. More by Gilare Zada Griffin Jones [email protected] Reporter/Intern. Griffin Jones is a writer born and raised in San Francisco. ... Of the 60 people in SF killed by cops since 2000, 57 have been male, and ...Between 2019 and 2020, many neighborhoods saw a dramatic rise in fires. They leaped up 43 percent in the Tenderloin, 50 percent in the Mission, 63 percent in the Castro/Upper Market area and over 70 percent in SoMa. Taken as a whole, fires in San Francisco increased by more than a quarter within a single year.The San Francisco School District’s renaming debacle has been a historic travesty. SF’s decision to rename 44 schools: Botched process. Botched outcome. Botched priorities. by Joe Eskenazi January 28, 2021, 5:27 pm. Mission High School. Photo courtesy of miss_millions via Flickr Commons. These are complex times.State axes SF rules outlawing public employee strikes. Members of SEIU 1021 temporarily shut down a section of Market Street on Feb. 17, 2021.Photo by Juan Carlos Lara. An emphatic ruling from a state public employment board has eviscerated San Francisco’s half-century-old City Charter sections forbidding public employees from …SF’s Chinese offer a range of views on school board recall by Yujie Zhou February 8, 2022, 6:00 am February 14, 2022, 11:47 pm. ... Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness.Nov 20, 2023 · Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. Three San Francisco supervisors received a threatening letter at their homes on Tuesday, and two more filed police reports after Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator and a heavy campaign donor to efforts to oust progressive politicians, posted online that seven supervisors should die a slow death. Tan wrote “Die slow motherfuckers” in ...Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. Attorneys for Nima Momeni, the accused killer of tech executive Bob Lee, have requested to have the murder case moved from San Francisco, where they suggested Momeni would not get a fair trial because the city’s large tech population saw Lee as a “celebrity.”. They also suggested today, after a hearing to …We kept growing and in October 2022, the IRS granted Mission Local SF (EIN: 88-3177547) status as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (retroactive to July 1, …Feb 12, 2024 · SF’s reputation is in the toilet right now. Thanks Mission Local for highlighting these groups efforts to improve SF for the better. Mission residents have seen enough of the bleak, dirty streets, crime, homelessness, and disorder that years of progressive rule have brought us. Around 40 percent of the pop-up pantry program budget is supported by the city, amounting to over $11 million in grant funding since July, 2022. Each pantry serves anywhere from 500 to 1,200 registered participants weekly. Before the pandemic, the SF-Marin Food Bank largely relied on 250 independent permanent pantries to distribute food.E, the mayor’s police measure, is no silver bullet for crime, foes say. Prop. E is a “kitchen-sink approach,” EFF analyst says. by Eleni Balakrishnan February 16, 2024, 9:37 am. A police SUV parked along Precita Avenue. Photo by Taytum Wymer, June 12, 2023. This is the first of a two-part series detailing the possible effects of ...Local funds: $1,191,728,732. Data shows funding for 100 percent affordable units from 2018 to 2023. Source: Affordable Housing Leadership Council. Chart by Kelly Waldron. “It’s darn expensive to build affordable housing in San Francisco,” said Adams. While finding more outside funding is a challenge, so is securing local money.Apr 28, 2023 · Around 40 percent of the pop-up pantry program budget is supported by the city, amounting to over $11 million in grant funding since July, 2022. Each pantry serves anywhere from 500 to 1,200 registered participants weekly. Before the pandemic, the SF-Marin Food Bank largely relied on 250 independent permanent pantries to distribute food. Three San Francisco supervisors received a threatening letter at their homes on Tuesday, and two more filed police reports after Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator and a heavy campaign donor to efforts to oust progressive politicians, posted online that seven supervisors should die a slow death. Tan wrote “Die slow motherfuckers” in ...The San Francisco public school teachers’ union has overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike, with 97 percent of those who voted backing the proposal — a move that ups the ante in long-running, contentious contract negotiations with the San Francisco Unified School District. Three unions with workers in the school district have now ...In the past year, arrests have shot up, and jail populations are climbing. Anytime arrests are up, SF Pretrial’s client base increases. In early 2022, they averaged only around 500 cases at any given time. Right now, they’re down to 22 case managers, said Mauroff, spread thin across a growing list of 900 clients.The Mission District ( Spanish: Distrito de la Misión ), [4] commonly known as the Mission ( Spanish: La Misión ), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the …The Mission is a powerhouse when it comes to galleries and public art. The globally renown and long-lasting Creativity Explored, a nonprofit that celebrates people with developmental disabilities, combines entrepreneurial altruism with a winning aesthetic. Visit the Gallery on 16th near Guerrero St and pick up a piece of original art you could ...Sarita’s Grill & Beer, a new Salvadoran restaurant serving both old and new eats, aims to open next week at 995 Valencia St. near 21st Street, where Biriani House stood until last October. Sarita’s will feature a menu with not only traditional Salvadoran plates like pupusas, beef soup and tamales, but also new innovations that are still ...FedEx, which has locations at 2690 Mission St. and 1550 Bryant St., among many others citywide, ranked 11th and paid $91,343. 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Multiple sources told Mission Local that, during the many, many meetings between city agencies regarding a proliferation of unlicensed vendors along the Embarcadero, police talked up examples of sausages months past expiration being stored in direct sunlight. Images of rancid green meat, the reasoning went, would scare the …Dec 19, 2023 · July 8, 2023. Four children ranging in age from 13 to 17 filed a class-action suit today against the city, its police chief, Mission Station’s police captain and a tactical squad lieutenant in a long-promised legal action following the SFPD’s crackdown at this summer’s Dolores Park Hill Bomb. Scores of police broke up the annual ... Mission Local produces enterprise-reporting on SF’s most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness. Learn more about …Mission Lotería is a “shop small, support local” initiative that combines local art, small businesses and our love for Lotería with imagery inspired by the Mission District of San Francisco. To play, simply shop at participating businesses and collect a Mission Lotería sticker with your purchase. Join us for one of our monthly events in ...The SFPD announced after 10 p.m. Wednesday that it had obtained video footage and released images of “a person of interest” in a fatal shooting that occurred 12 hours earlier on a Muni train traveling between Forest Hill and Castro stations. A 27-year-old victim was killed, and a 70-year-old victim was transported to the hospital, according ...by Annika Hom June 14, 2023, 10:36 pm. Javier Campos III, rapping in a store. Screenshot taken from Boogang Ent. Police arrested Javier Campos III, 22, Wednesday in connection with last week’s mass shooting in the Mission. “The San Francisco Police Department was part of a multi-jurisdictional effort that took Javier Campos into custody.The Mission District – one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods 25 years ago – is in “an advanced stage of gentrification” and is now comparable to some parts of the South Bay, such as Sunnyvale, a suburb with an average median income of around $106,000, according to a recent study by two Berkeley researchers. While the Mission’s ...SF ice cream shop vandalized, tagged with pro-Palestine graffiti. Smitten, a Jewish-owned ice cream shop in San Francisco's Mission District, had its windows smashed and tagged with graffiti early ...Overview: Delay triggers chaos in court. On Friday a San Francisco Superior Court judge pushed back the preliminary hearing of former SFPD Officer Chris Samayoa, who shot dead Keita “Icky” O’Neil in 2017. The hearing was delayed until July, a decision that caused outrage among O’Neil’s supporters, who were thrown out of court for the ...Closing Laguna Honda would be like dropping a bomb on SF. Punitive federal behavior regarding potential closure remains baffling. But longstanding drug use and violence at hospital menaces staff and frail elderly. by Joe Eskenazi May 17, 2022, 3:21 pm. Laguna Honda Hospital, seen here in 1956, was founded some 166 years ago as an …Mar 8, 2024 · SFPD voids search warrant on news site after pushback. An SFPD SUV parked near the scene of a fatal police shooting in the Richmond, where SFPD responded to a 911 call and found a dead woman, a dead dog, and an injured man. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan taken on June 22, 2023. Indybay, a local news collective represented by the Electronic ... Mission Local’s Annika Hom, at Haney’s watch party in SoMa, reports that the candidate strode in at 9 to a massive cheer from both his stalwart supporters and his wingman, Supervisor Shamann Walton: “WHOOOOO!” ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San …Jan 24, 2024 · BART Plaza. Photo by Lydia Chavez. SF SAFE, San Francisco nonprofit that has been accused of misspending city funds is today facing a new charge: It has purportedly stiffed a Mission District nonprofit of $625,000 for services already provided. The Latino Task Force, which was contracted by the nonprofit SF SAFE to train Spanish-speaking staff ... A group of pro-Palestine protesters marching down Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Photo by Joe Rivano Barros. Thousands of protesters took over the Central Freeway in San Francisco today in a march calling for an end to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza that began three weeks ago after a surprise attack by Hamas.Mission. Mission Local, an independent, Latina-led news site based in the Mission District, the neighborhood with San Francisco’s largest Latinx population, aims to produce high-impact journalism covering government, police reform, housing, education, and community health.Nov 20, 2023 · Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. Feb 12, 2024 · SF’s reputation is in the toilet right now. Thanks Mission Local for highlighting these groups efforts to improve SF for the better. Mission residents have seen enough of the bleak, dirty streets, crime, homelessness, and disorder that years of progressive rule have brought us. Persons considering a police career have likely scoped out SF and quickly written it off as an option due to anti-police BOS, commission and a variety of community groups. High cost of living and commute issue are also factors. Demographics have totally changed in SF – less lower middle class and middle class (a traditional pool of candidates).Feb 17, 2024 · by Junyao Yang February 16, 2024, 6:51 pm. San Francisco city workers' unions gather in a rally at San Francisco General on Friday to demand more staffing and less outsourcing. Photo by Junyao Yang on Feb. 16, 2024. San Francisco spends too much money outsourcing city jobs, and too little hiring full-time staff who actually live in the city. In related news, SF Weekly’s owners on Friday announced they are pulling the plug on the paper indefinitely. San Francisco, a realm of unfettered inequality and obliviousness and corruption — perhaps the city that most needs a robust and functional alt-weekly newspaper — will now have exactly zero.. We live in a profoundly dispiriting place.Mission Local’s Annika Hom, at Haney’s watch party in SoMa, reports that the candidate strode in at 9 to a massive cheer from both his stalwart supporters and his wingman, Supervisor Shamann Walton: “WHOOOOO!” ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San …Ride-hailing and food-delivery workers from 15 countries rallied at San Francisco International Airport and Uber headquarters Thursday to demand better treatment from gig platforms. The demonstration came on the last day of the gathering of the nascent International Congress of Gig Workers. “What we say is, if you conquer your labor rights …Follow the opioid data, NY doc tells SF. by Lydia Chávez September 20, 2023, 9:15 am September 20, 2023, 9:15 am. Posted in Newsletter ... Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health, housing and homelessness.Mission Lotería is a “shop small, support local” initiative that combines local art, small businesses and our love for Lotería with imagery inspired by the Mission District of San Francisco. To play, simply shop at participating businesses and collect a Mission Lotería sticker with your purchase. Join us for one of our monthly events in ...Jan 24, 2024 · by Eleni Balakrishnan January 23, 2024, 4:36 pm. Photo courtesy of San Francisco Sheriff's Department. Scott Neu, a former sheriff’s deputy who was fired in 2015 for allegedly forcing jail inmates to fight each other, and costing the city some $280,000 in settlements, is being rehired by the Sheriff’s Office, Mission Local has learned ... U.S. Mission to Vietnam Announces Recruitment for 2024… Tenth U.S.-Vietnam Asia-Pacific Dialogue. Ambassador Marc Knapper Returns Personal Diary of… I Need… A …Mission Dolores curator wants to memorialize site’s indigenous dead; Former SF worker charged with looting $627K in workers’ comp; Police boost reward for 2016 Mission double murder to $200K; Keep local news alive — donate today!The Mission District ( Spanish: Distrito de la Misión ), [4] commonly known as the Mission ( Spanish: La Misión ), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the …Mission Local. Local news for a global city ... On the all-night line with SF’s Chinese visa seekers. by Yujie Zhou March 8, 2023, 6:00 am March 10, 2023, 2:56 pm. Posted in The Pandemic Covid-19 Tracker: Optimistic? by Mark Rabine December 21, 2022, 1:11 pm December 22, 2022, 11:47 am.Sep 16, 2021 · Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left. “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. Jenny Lemons, a quirky boutique on 24th Street in the Mission, is closing at the end of November amid plummeting foot traffic. The 6-year-old store, which sells funky items including hair clips ...SF cannabis sector struggles amid saturation, loss of foot traffic. by Kelly Waldron September 26, 2023, 6:00 am. Mission Cannabis Club on Mission Street near 21st Street. Photo by Kelly Waldron. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been presented with a bill to allow Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes across California, a bid to help invigorate an …Mission Local. Local news for a global city Open Search Search for: Search ... SF City College promises to heat frigid classrooms by summer; Has fare evasion on SF’s Muni …Photo by Juan Carlos Lara at a protest for the Black Employee Alliance and Coalition Against Anti-Blackness on Oct. 2, 2020. Three Black city employees have filed a class action lawsuit in San Francisco’s Superior Court on behalf of “all union and non-union Black employees” working for city departments. The lawsuit alleges that city ...Mission Local. Local news for a global city About; ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco ...January 3, 2023. Mayor London Breed and three moderate supervisors said on Tuesday that a proposal to drug test San Francisco welfare recipients would keep individuals “accountable” and help shepherd those struggling with addiction into treatment. But more than half a dozen addiction experts and political figures told Mission Local …Mission Local Membership. Mission Local is an award-winning, independent news site located in San Francisco's Mission District. We try to add value; to find stories that others are missing; to dig deep. We also train young reporters to report on a wide range of issues including police reform, City Hall, income disparity, business, housing, and ...Local. How to spend the perfect day in San Francisco's Mission District. This chill neighborhood is home to top-tier thrifting, amazing burritos and one of America's oldest dispensaries. By...A new report ranks San Francisco’s park system as one of the best in the country — as long as you are not a low-income resident.. The city-based nonprofit Trust for Public Land launched its 10th annual ParkScore index report, which judges park systems in major U.S. metropolitan areas by factors such as park spending per resident, acreage, …San Francisco police previously increased the reward to $100,000 from the original reward of $25,000 offered in 2019. Anyone with information about the case or …Shear, 40, gave $49,000 to the “Committee for a Safer San Francisco 2024,” joining another tech executive, Ripple CEO Chris Larsen, who has already given $250,000 as the measure’s biggest donor. Shear was a co-founder of Twitch and served as the company’s CEO for more than 10 years.Donate Now. If you prefer to write a check, you can send them to Mission Local SF at 2489 Mission St. # 22, SF, 94110. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] or call us at 415-275-4739. In 2023, we applied to and received grants from the Fund for Nonprofit News at The Miami Foundation, Newsmatch ($24,600 ...Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan. Attorneys for Nima Momeni, the accused killer of tech executive Bob Lee, have requested to have the murder case moved from San Francisco, where they suggested Momeni would not get a fair trial because the city’s large tech population saw Lee as a “celebrity.”. They also suggested today, after a hearing to …Stanley Ellicott, the former HR manager charged in January for selling electronics he allegedly bought with city money, was arrested again yesterday with …‘San Francisco can’t do this alone’: SF housing group says securing dollars is biggest obstacle March 1, 2024, 12:04 pm March 1, 2024, 12:12 pm Meet the District 1 candidates: How will your life experience help you as supervisor?The Mission District is one of San Francisco’s most trendy and hipster neighborhoods, packed with home decor shops, gift boutiques, restaurants, bars, and …At Mission Local, Gilare hopes to use her data skills to deliver human stories, as well as add Spanish to her list of four languages. More by Gilare Zada Griffin Jones [email protected] Reporter/Intern. Griffin Jones is a writer born and raised in San Francisco. ... Of the 60 people in SF killed by cops since 2000, 57 have been male, and ...San Francisco police previously increased the reward to $100,000 from the original reward of $25,000 offered in 2019. Anyone with information about the case or …Mar 14, 2022 · SF is now boycotting most of the United States. by Joe Eskenazi March 14, 2022, 6:05 am. San Francisco in March reached the tipping point of boycotting businesses headquartered in most of the 50 states (March tally pictured in graphic). In the ensuing months, the number of states on the banned list has swelled from 28 to 30. Meals will be available on Thursday and Friday at: 481 O’Farrell St., 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 333 Turk St., 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 66 Raymond Ave., 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The nonprofit is still looking for volunteers 15 years or older to package, deliver and serve meals over Thanksgiving and the Christmas period.Mission Local covers the latest news, events, and issues in the Mission District and beyond. Find out about the 2024 election, crime, housing, culture, and more.Multiple sources told Mission Local that, during the many, many meetings between city agencies regarding a proliferation of unlicensed vendors along the Embarcadero, police talked up examples of sausages months past expiration being stored in direct sunlight. Images of rancid green meat, the reasoning went, would scare the …Mar 8, 2024 · SFPD voids search warrant on news site after pushback. An SFPD SUV parked near the scene of a fatal police shooting in the Richmond, where SFPD responded to a 911 call and found a dead woman, a dead dog, and an injured man. Photo by Eleni Balakrishnan taken on June 22, 2023. Indybay, a local news collective represented by the Electronic ... Consider donating to Mission Local today. We're a nonprofit newsroom that has been covering San Francisco since 2008, digging deep to bring you the political analysis, investigative stories, follow-up reporting, and neighborhood news you won't get elsewhere. ... “Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from …A new report ranks San Francisco’s park system as one of the best in the country — as long as you are not a low-income resident.. The city-based nonprofit Trust for Public Land launched its 10th annual ParkScore index report, which judges park systems in major U.S. metropolitan areas by factors such as park spending per resident, acreage, … Mission Local. 19,290 likes · 343 talking about this · 3 were here. News from San Francisco's Mission District Oct 24, 2022 · They landed the unit for $460,000 and, just like that, gained an elusive foothold in San Francisco real estate. A decade earlier, Neil Patel felt much the same way. He beat out hundreds of lottery applicants to win the right to buy a one-bedroom unit at Mint Plaza for around $213,000. “It started out wonderful. Milo Trauss admitted the project at 2588 Mission St. was a “non-starter for some people.” It’s a 10-story, overwhelmingly market-rate building proposed by Hawk Lou, the owner of the site on Mission and 22nd streets where Lou’s previous building burned in 2015.Scores of tenants and businesses were displaced (including Mission Local), and …More than 30 nonprofits say SF is delaying their funding A rally is scheduled for Sept. 26 by Annika Hom September 22, 2023, 6:08 pm September 26, 2023, 12:01 pm. ... Mission Local reached out to the City Attorney’s Office. This will be updated if and when they respond. Delayed payment could also affect clients, Sherburn-Zimmer argued. .... 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